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Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) is a renowned independent government trust in India, managed by the Government of Andhra Pradesh. Best known for overseeing the world-famous Venkateswara Temple in Tirumala, TTD also manages numerous temples in Tirupati and across the globe. …
Most Bhagwat Katha narrators are known first for their oratory and second, if at all, for what they do with the devotion they attract. Pujya Shri Aniruddhacharya Ji Maharaj’s public identity runs in the opposite direction.
Before his Shrimad Bhagwat …
aritmanas to whoever would listen. His grandfather — the saint Tribhuvana Das Bapu — had spent years teaching him the depth of this text. The boy had absorbed not just the words but the understanding behind them.
That was 1960.…
Pandit Indresh Upadhyay Ji Maharaj was born on 7 August 1997 in Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh — the city of Lord Krishna, where the air itself is considered devotional. His father, Shri Krishna Chandra Shastri Ji (Krishnachandra Ji Thakur), is a …
In a small household in Kolkata, a boy named Rajesh Kumar Tiwari grew up listening to his father, Shri Shivji Tiwari, deliver religious discourses. The family’s ancestral roots traced back to Siwan, Bihar — and with those roots came languages …
Venkat Rao, a 44-year-old from Vijayawada, had visited Tirupati four times — always by bus, always through the standard queue system. On his fifth visit, he decided to try the footpath route — the traditional way pilgrims had climbed the …
Priya Sharma, a 36-year-old from Delhi, had attended Ayodhya Deepotsav in 2024 without registering. She reached Ayodhya by bus at 4:00 PM on the main event day, walked to the Saryu riverbank, and found herself at a ghat that was …
Priya Sharma, a 44-year-old from Delhi, had come to Jammu for one reason: the onward journey to Katra and Vaishno Devi. She had a night at a hotel near Jammu Tawi station, and her bus to Katra left the next …
Kavita Singh, a 38-year-old teacher from Allahabad, had planned the Maihar trip for her daughter’s Class 10 board exam results. Her daughter had studied hard; Kavita wanted to take her to Maa Sharda — the Goddess of Wisdom — for …
Ashok Tiwari, a 52-year-old schoolteacher from Varanasi, had been to Prayagraj for Magh Mela three times. He had done the Sangam Snan each time — the holy dip at the Triveni Sangam where the Ganga, Yamuna, and the invisible Saraswati …
